" If there is a God, why has he not answered the prayers of the needy..............."

He did. Nobody liked his answer.

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The biggest problems we are facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all and that’s what I intend to reverse.

And that was the curse.
Before oil arabs were very inventive and hard working.
Something for free and turn in a bum.

Arabs were poetic, dreamers.. Lots of talk and hardly any work. Islam changed this as hard work is considered a noble form of worship and naturally with hard work comes invention. As the practice of Islam declined among Muslims, hard work became less noble and a lot of time was spent dreaming of a better future and/or writing poetry about the glorious past.